Vintage Photos of Polish ancestors

You need to re-size the pictures to 20-30k size

I think this one was taken in Scotland. He was based there with the 24th Lancers, 10th Motorised Brigade, 1st Polish Armoured division.

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Hi Patrycja,

I know the feeling. I've been researching my family tree for the past 5 years. From only knowing about some 12 persons now the tree has over 450 and counting. Still, without pictures nearly all are just names on a piece of paper.

My cousin outside of Wroclaw has my grandmother's photo albums which are chock full of pictures, only thing is, we do not have the faintest idea of who the people are!

Piotr

I know, I have to make some of them smaller.. I will work on that today :))

anyone else is welcome to join in like peter did.

yes.. I have quite a few if those too. I have what my mom had picture wise.. I was
lucky to find cousins willing to share their older photos.. I plan to seperate the
pics and name all ( what I can)

:)

Great idea Patrycja, I love old photos and next month our Genealogical Society is having a speaker who will talk on old photos and hidden clues you can use to identify them.



I have a neat old wedding picture of my GGGrandmother , but I can't figure out how to get it on to this spot.
HELP!!!

My grandfather was a corporal in an artillery regiment in the Austro-Hungarian army in WW1. He sent postcards (presumably of his battalion) to my grandmother.

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My father's class at school in Boryslaw in 1933. You cannot help but wonder what happened to all of them.

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These are classic.. you are making a book with all of this right?

you have so much knowledge of your family and some really amazing pictures!

Not really. I have a somewhat good idea about my grandparents. After that I have'nt a clue! I'm lucky in that 2 cousins who I recently discovered are in their 70's and 80's and still have quite a good memory. Somewhat limited but some info is better than none.

On duty with the reserves in 1934.

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Primary school in Boryslaw around 1926.

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Little boy in white sitting down in front is my grand-father. I worked it out to be 1903 +/- a year.

Iniewicz (last name)
my last name is Dziubczynski

will it ...work ...

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Very nice. I think this thread will turn into a showpiece eventually with people
sharing photos and even a finding aide tool for names/surnames..

Keep emm coming :)

interesting :) ...

From left to right - my father's maternal grandmother and paternal grandmother

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The above picture was taken in Calumet City, IL around 1940, but both of my great-grandmothers were born in Poland (then Galicia, Austria).

Very nice Koach.

keep emm coming. :)

This is another of my father's paternal grandmother. She's standing next to her nephew's plane at the airstrip in Joliet, IL.

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That's all I seem to have. I wish I had pictures of my father's grandfathers. We used to have pictures of his paternal grandfather from his wake. It was held at the family's house in Joliet. He had a striking resemblence to Joseph Stalin.

This is a photo of my great-grandparents on their wedding day in the early 1900's. They both emigrated separely from Poland. My great-grandmother came to the states through Austria and so she was registered as Austrian. My grandfather used to tell how people would tease her about being Austrian because it would get her all riled up and get her to start insisting she was Polish.

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Very Nice Irishy :) I have a few that look like this, this pic is from about 1906 -1909?
Am I close?

I have one similar, and the date is about 1908..

Yes you are close. My great-grandparents were married sometime between when Aneila arrived in the US in 1911 and 1914 when my grandfather was born. I can't recall the exact date and I am peeking at the forum from work (shhh) so can't look up the exact year.

Theres a lot of Poles some other Eastern European immigrants who arrived in America in the 1840's in Wisconsin, Michigan, Minnesota, North Dakota, South Dakota.

Just to let you know.

This is my uncle who died in 1971 in canada

Tony

he looks like a very handsome fella.. did u get to meet him?
that was the downside in my family, so many gone long before I was thought
of :(

Sadly no I never met him I was just under 1 when he died:0(my older brother was very close to him though. yes he was gorgeous so was my mother and her mother and father must be the polish genes eh. my brother David has 3 sons the middle one who is now 26 just looks like Tony:0)

my grandfather and his brothers taken in poland in the 1920s.

my grandfather and his brothers taken in poland in the 1920s

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